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...merits of that no-b.s. culture became clear as the world around Intel began to crack. Starting in 1976, the firm sailed into one iceberg after another: weak demand for memory chips, factory problems, ruthless Japanese "dumping." In 1981, when Intel steamed into yet another exhausting chip slowdown, Grove decided that instead of laying off employees he'd order Intel's staff to work 25% harder--two hours a day, every day, for free. The "125% solution" turned Santa Clara into a sweatshop (a few particularly dyspeptic engineers took to wearing sweatbands to highlight the point), but Grove...
...mayonnaise or something, it could get contaminated. Talk about far-fetched. We trust our peers to remember when they have stowed an entire sandwich in a pocket and to think twice before biting into food that's been sitting in their jacket for a week. If anything, the crack-down is only detrimental to first-years health, given that nutritionists have often argued that it is healthier to consume numerous small meals and snacks throughout the day than to eat three large meals...
...supposed to work is something like this," says Blondie. "You're supposed to go to a crack house and make a buy, or have someone make it for you via a 'controlled buy.' To do that, you've got to strip the guy beforehand to make sure there is no other money on him. Then you give him some money and he makes the buy, and you strip him afterward to make sure he has no more money." Do it like that, he says, and the buy and subsequent arrest are legal...
...pain for several reasons," he says. "First, you risk having your agent exposed. Second, who's gonna sell to a white guy standing in line at a crack house? So you get some piper [crack addict] or some whore to make the buy. Or you just pinch someone coming out of the house and find out who's in the place, whether they're armed, and where the dope is. Then you go in. It's illegal that way, but then you go and get a warrant later [and falsify the report], saying you made the buy yourself." Or, adds...
Most of the time, the squad's knowledge of crack-house operations was the product of tipster information. "And you have to protect those informants," says Blondie. "It's really your No. 1 obligation. You have defense attorneys demanding that you identify them. But if you give up an informant, chances are he's dead by nightfall...